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Just lurk there for a while. IMO, biggest misconception is that they're omnicidal lunatics. They have a lot of in-jokes and bits that seem incomprehensible and border on unhinged to an outsider, and sometimes they kinda lean in to the perception. But if you spend enough time there you realise they're very intelligent and deeply empathetic people. The "unlimited genocide on the first world" rhetoric is an expression of frustration rather than actual intent.
Literally something I’d say like 12 years ago.
As far back as I can recall, there have been at least two types of internet forums.
There are ones where dumb people go to pretend to be smart, and there are ones where smart people go to pretend to be dumb.
The problem with the ones where smart people pretend to be dumb is that eventually it attracts actual dumb people. Then the forum dies.
Which one is .ml?
Yes.
Browse the news mega or other serious threads. Not everything is a joke post, though there are many of those.
If they're deeply empathetic people, then why do so many of them support the Ukraine invasion and want them to roll over and give their country away to Putin?
This is not what "so many of them support" and I know you cannot source a popular post to prove otherwise because it doesn't exist.
Hexbear oppose Putin, they just also recognise Ukraine and NATO also behave very shittily, sometimes moreso. There's a recognition that the west have gleefully egged on this war at the expense of innocent Ukrainian/DPR/LPR/Russian civilian lives.
Wholesome "every single motherfucking one of you should fucking die in a meat grinder because I'm very upset at what Rachael Maddow told me in 2016" moment
Here's an idea! If you have so much empathy for them, take their place! Spare someone kidnapped off the street against their will the horrible death you want them to suffer on your behalf! You're the one braying for blood, you go spill it.
This is covered in another thread on this post if you actually want to know. I suspect you don't, and just want to post gotcha arguments in bad faith.
Pretty much sums up all of hexbear here.
I did come across someone's explanation that they think Putin isn't a bad guy just because he invaded Ukraine but that argument doesn't really hold any water with me. I suppose the last hexbear users that i interacted with who wished death upon me for once again pointing out their lies and disinformation were also extremely empathetic? They've been defederated from most of lemmy because they're super empathetic people too? Do you think people actually believe this stuff?
the least propagnadized lemm.ee lib has logged on everybody
Because Ukraine isn't part of the first world, they do still want unlimited genocide against the second and third world.